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Both teams will advance to playoffs next week. Learn more here.

Both teams posted dominating performances Thursday in Botetourt County. Learn more here.

The Lamplighter's Book Sale at Radford Public Library will be held Nov. 6 through 8. We have details on our Back Cover book blog.

Sportswriter Mark Berman talked with Virginia Tech basketball coach Seth Greenberg and Radford coach Brad Greenberg and got their pre-season thoughts. See this post on Mark's Courtside basketball blog.

The Radford School Board meets tonight at 6 p.m. Here's the agenda.

We have this photo gallery from Friday's Radford-Glenvar football game from Stephanie Klein-Davis of The Roanoke Times.

You can view her photos in the slideshow above or in this photo gallery.

We also have video highlights from the game.

Do you have photos from the game? Or anything, for that matter, involving people or events around the New River Valley? If so, you can share at newriver@roanoke.com and we'll show 'em off on the Community Current, our site for reader-submitted news and photos.

We have these video highlights from Friday night's Radford - Glenvar football game.

Do you have photos from the game? You can share at newriver@roanoke.com and we'll show them off on the Community Current, our site for reader-submitted news and photos.

Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate for governor, will make appearances in Radford and Blacksburg on Saturday.

When we get word about any campaign appearances in the New River Valley by Bob McDonnell, the Republican candidate, we'll share them here, as well.

Deeds' schedule is below:

1 PM IN RADFORD - LUNCH WITH SUPPORTERS. Sen. Deeds will join U.S. Senator Mark Warner, Rep. Rick Boucher (D-9th District) for a lunch with supporters at a house in Radford.

When: 1:00 PM

Where: Home of Gail Montouri
801 Oak Lane
Radford, VA

3 PM IN BLACKSBURG - GET OUT THE VOTE EVENT WITH SENATOR MARK WARNER. Sen. Deeds will join U.S. Senator Mark Warner and Sen. John Edwards (D-Roanoke) for a get out the vote campaign event in Blacksburg. Sen. Deeds and Sen. Warner will speak to voters and supporters about the importance of getting out the vote on November 3.

When: 3:00 PM

Where: Democratic Coordinated Campaign Office
208 North Main Street
Blacksburg, VA

The Giles golf team won the state Group A golf tournament today while Zeke Shaffer of Radford won the individual title. We have details on our Pressbox sports blog.

We've just updated Radford's searchable crime database with the most recent offenses. In all, Radford police reported 162 offenses from Sept. 20 to Oct. 17.

Among them were four rapes, 11 burglaries -- and lots of drunkeness and liquor law violations.

You can see a map of where the incidents took place - or you can search the database yourself, by date, by location or by offense.

The Radford crime database is part of our Datasphere site of searchable data. Among other things you can find: School-by-school results on the annual No Child Left Behind tests.